Based on 3D modeling and testing on a moai replica, researchers think that small groups of people may have used ropes to ...

The ancient moai statues of Easter Island may have been “walked” to their resting places, according to a new study.

Scientists may have solved the mystery of how the giant statues of Easter Island moved to their present locations.

Easter Island statues, traditionally known as moai on the remote island of Rapa Nui in the South Pacific, are some of the ...

Scientists recently confirmed Rapa Nui legends about Moai heads "walking" to their locations, using 3D modeling to prove ...

The iconic Moai statues of Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, have long fascinated researchers and tourists alike. Recent ...

Easter Island is famous for its giant monumental statues, called moai, built some 800 years ago and typically mounted on platforms called ahu. Scholars have puzzled over the moai on Easter Island for ...

Researchers at the State University of New York at Binghamton believe they've cracked the case of how Easter Island's famous ...

The mystery of how the roughly 130,000 pound statues traveled from quarry to resting place may be solved.

The "walking moai hypothesis" could end a long-time debate over how ancient engineers moved these iconic statues around ...

For many years, people have wondered how the giant stone statues on Easter Island were moved. These statues, famous for their giant heads and serious faces are called Moai (pronounced mo-eye), and can ...

Explorers have long known there was more to the 887 statues on Easter Island—some 2,000 miles west of Chile—than just the statue heads made famous in photographs. When most people think of the ...